In 1960, the great filmmaker Bimal Roy had shot the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and Haridwar as...
Category - Documentary
The Indian Documentary: Pre Independence Era
The Indian documentary may be traced back to the ‘factual films’ or Topicals as they...
Fire in the Blood
“If one death is a tragedy, and one million deaths a statistic, then this film is about...
Celluloid Man: A Perfect Paean to the Pictures
Of the 1700 films that were made in the silent era in India, only nine exist today. This number...
Gulabi Gang
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust...
Director’s Note: An American in Madras
It sounded almost unbelievable – An American? Who made Tamil Films in the 1930s and 40s...
The Irony of Superheroes
In a city overrun by social and economical issues, escapism comes in the form of modest video...
Celluloid Man
A tribute to an extraordinary man called Mr PK Nair, who built the National Film Archive of India...
BV Karanth – Baba
At a very young age BV Karanth ran away from his house in Babukodi village near Mangalore in...
The Rat Race
Mumbai’s invisible army of rat-catchers – it’s more appropriate to call them...